Stunning footage of parkour on Edinburgh’s Forth Road Bridge has emerged in the trailer for a new documentary.
The documentary “Off the Rails” follows the lives of teenagers who hope that their parkour stunts will be their tickets out of Guildford. The trailer for the feature film shows the teens performing hair-raising stunts as they climb atop the wires of the Forth Road bridge.
Screenings of the new film will be coming to the Edinburgh Filmhouse on August 18 and Vue Cinema on August 19. Both showings will also feature a Q&A with the documentary's director, Peter Day.
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The trailer for the film shows the teens performing a number of hair-raising stunts, including riding atop trains in the Paris Metro and London’s Tube, climbing Berlin’s TV Tower and the Severn Bridge as well as the familiar footage from Edinburgh’s Forth Road Bridge.
The film follows the story of Rikke Brewer and his friend Aidan Knox across their career. The feature will include archived footage from their ten-year long career as well as honest interviews from the two teens as they reflect on their career and the dangers it came with.
The director of the film, Peter Day, said: “I first encountered Rikke’s YouTube videos in 2016. It got me thinking that we scroll through hundreds of YouTube videos, always looking for a more daring stunt, never having any emotional investment in the people behind these extreme feats of athleticism and recklessness.
“I got sweaty palms looking at the videos on my 3 inch phone screen and I wondered what it would be like to see it blown up on a 30 foot screen instead. I wanted to take something we experience privately to an event we consume publicly at the cinema.
“Rikke and Aidan are hugely creative storytellers in their own right. I think authority figures have a tendency to write people off, to their detriment. But I have a belief in the limitless potential of people.”
You can see the footage here:
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